There are mandate plugins to be installed, after you host your WordPress Blog. Creating awesome content and posting frequently is not just enough to keep running your Blog and take it to your targeted audience.

It is also required to install the mandate plugins and make use of those effectively. SEO Yoast and Social sharing plugins are such important plugins.

Most of the beginners will prefer to choose free plugins and it is advised to be choosy to install free plugins. In the following post, I am going to share you the most important plugins to be installed as a Blog Beginner.

All  the plugins cover the basic requirements of your Site stats, Site cache, social sharing and webmaster tools. These plugins are not only mandate, but also must to install to your plugins.

List of WordPress Plugins Required by Every Blog Beginner

Jetpack

The Jetpack plugin will help you to manage Digital Marketing, Security features, Design, Mobile Responsive, Sharing, comments and many other utilities.

Yoast SEO

Top class SEO tool which guides you with all the meta tags, keywords, repeat-ability, title and description.

Check with the post on how to install and configure Yoast SEO Plugin.

Wp Super Cache and W3 Total Cache

Both plugins are high rated plugins to keep your website fully cache enabled. Caching your pages is part of SEO. You should work on the caching the pages.

WP-Forms

You will have to create multiple forms to generate an interaction with your targeted audience. Forms like feedback, contact-us, Surveys, Q&A’s, Polls can be conducted on your site using WP-Forms.

WP Mail SMTP by WP-Forms

The most popular WordPress SMTP and PHP Mailer plugin. Trusted by over 1 million sites. SMTP helps increase email delivery by using proper authentication.

Monster Insights

Very popular plugin to monitor your Site’s traffic. the Plugin will help you to connect with Search Engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo for deep insights.

It could also connect to Google ad publisher to monitor your Google ads earnings. It can generate the reports like, Audience Report, Behavior Report, Content Report, e-commerce Report and many more.

Tiny MCE Advanced

TinyMCE Advanced introduces a “Classic Paragraph” block and a “Hybrid Mode” for the new Block Editor (Gutenberg). Rich text editor with a wide verities of options to insert multiple media types like images, videos and links very easily.

You can save a lot of time with Tiny MCE and can concentrate peacefully in writing your Blog Post.

Suggested Reading:

How to Fix Missing Visual Editor (Tiny MCE) Problem

Akismet 

Top listed WordPress plugin, which helps you to block all your spam messages and spam registration attempts. Very effective and must usable plugin by every WordPress Blogger. I suggest you to install this plugin immediately after you host your Blog.

I’ve seen many spam blocks done by Akismet and saved my Blog from spam.

Google XML Sitemaps (FREE)

Another SEO Plugin, which helps you to connect with search engines like Bing and Google. Easily creates XML Sitemaps for all your mandate pages and boosts the search results on indexing your posts on top search results.

User Registration (Freemium

Useful for membership based, dating and e-commerce websites to make the users register easily. Membership to your site plays a key role in E-mail Campaigns.